Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat brown: as, “his browny locks,”
- noun The top-knot.
- noun A kind of currant loaf in common use in Australia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Brown or, somewhat brown.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Somewhat
brown ; having abrownish tinge .
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Examples
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It's a kind of browny, yellowy, red-tinted, a sad auburn, with a sea-weedy wash about it.
The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894
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Sonic Retro, with a user known as 'browny' posting an image of a boss, as well as the listing on developer portal PartnerNET.
SPOnG.com 2010
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This new user, 'browny' is apparently getting the fresh assets from a friend who has access to PartnerNET.
SPOnG.com 2010
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I started finding whitish yellowy gooey substances in my pants about a year ago, and about a month ago I found a kind of browny substance (defiantly not skidmarks) in my pants, and its coming from my vagina.
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They are afraid they will give President Obama some browny points.
CNN Poll: Majority say confirm Sotomayor to Supreme Court 2009
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* Next time, I shall use the bleach more extensively, because what I have now is a browny-plum with beautiful violet highlights, and what I would like next time is just beautiful violet hair with browny-plum lowlights.
June 15th, 2009 matociquala 2009
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HH should get extra browny points for having a ‘hero’ an atheist who tries not to kill anybody. .even putting himself at risk (in the later books) in order not to kill other people. eamonn says:
KAMN Show #42: The Stainless Steel Rat : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas 2008
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At one point, incidentally, I got very concerned because I saw pink suddenly coming through, and the jacket was browny-yellow and I thought, oh, no.
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My guess is that the so-called Democratic 'king makers' in Michigan will accept just about anything to extricate themselves from their stupid, ill considered rush to show what they thought would be a sure bet that they were her super supporters and win some browny points with the incoming Washington power structure.
Obama Campaign Calls For 50-50 Split Of Michigan Delegates 2009
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Can you explain how the bomb got from Malta to Frankfurt and then to London with out being picked up at least by an alert Frankfurt security on the lookout for bombs hidden in Tosheba electronics. there are reports that a "browny Samsonite" was loaded on at Heathrow?
Al-Megrahi Madness Jeff 2009
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